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In 1995, Bob Taylor was interested in finding out if using exotic tonewoods in quality guitars was more important than luthier techniques and good design. He built a dreadnought guitar's back and sides with oak from shipping pallets he found at the factory, used a nondescript piece of 2x4 timber for its top, and made of neck out of pallet oak.
Taylor was born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1915, though some sources say 1917. He first played the piano and began playing the guitar when he was 20. He moved to Chicago in 1942. Taylor had a condition known as polydactylism, which resulted in him having six fingers on both hands. As is usual with the condition, the extra digits were ...
Taylor toured and recorded the album Crusade with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. From 1966 to 1969, Taylor developed a guitar style that is blues-based with Latin and jazz influences. He is the guitarist on the Bluesbreaker albums Crusade, Diary of a Band, Bare Wires, and Blues from Laurel Canyon.
Taylor recorded hundreds of reels of tape documenting and preserving bluegrass music, from "kitchen recordings" to live concerts, as well as serving as a recording engineer for studio albums. He donated about 500 reels to the Steam Powered Preservation Society, which has digitized many of them and made them available for streaming or downloading.
The relative success of these albums and his concert dates raised Taylor's profile in the guitar community. [citation needed] In 1991, Taylor performed in Australia, giving a solo performance on the Hey Hey It's Saturday show. Guitarist Tommy Emmanuel saw him on the show and contacted him, and the two became friends and frequent collaborators ...
[22] Taylor wrote his first song on guitar at 14, and he continued to learn the instrument effortlessly. [20] By the summer of 1963, he and Kortchmar were playing coffeehouses around the Vineyard, billed as "Jamie & Kootch". [23] In 1961, Taylor went to Milton Academy, a preparatory boarding school in Massachusetts.
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